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Cambridge Companion to Periyar

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge Companions to HistoryPublication details: UK: Cambridge University Press, 2025Description: x, 265pISBN:
  • 9781009605359
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.484 VEN/C
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Summary: The Cambridge Companion to Periyar presents a comprehensive account of his interventions on these topics and his complex politics and brings conversations from the Tamil world to a global audience. The chapters are contributions from established and emerging academics in different fields and look at Periyar from diverse disciplinary perspectives. Crucial events from Periyar’s life are discussed, as are critical aspects of Periyar’s thought. New published material is engaged with and old scholarship is revisited, reflecting the core concerns of Periyar and placing them in broader intellectual and historical contexts. The volume aims to draw attention to a non-canonical thinker whose important intellectual and political contributions transcend the limits of his context. Drawing upon new sources, challenging myths, and crossing disciplinary boundaries, it presents a Periyar for the times.
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The Cambridge Companion to Periyar presents a comprehensive account of his interventions on these topics and his complex politics and brings conversations from the Tamil world to a global audience.
The chapters are contributions from established and emerging academics in different fields and look
at Periyar from diverse disciplinary perspectives. Crucial events from Periyar’s life are discussed, as are
critical aspects of Periyar’s thought. New published material is engaged with and old scholarship is
revisited, reflecting the core concerns of Periyar and placing them in broader intellectual and historical
contexts.
The volume aims to draw attention to a non-canonical thinker whose important intellectual and
political contributions transcend the limits of his context. Drawing upon new sources, challenging
myths, and crossing disciplinary boundaries, it presents a Periyar for the times.

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